[ILUG] Ubuntu rocks.

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Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> Debian is built to be rock solid? Huh? Stable might be stable, but 
> it's also archaic. And testing and unstable are definitely not rock 
> solid. They might work if you know what you're at.
> 

Fair point, but the aim is to have something a little more solid than
standard. It is archaic - this is a side effect of the process, hence my
comparison with Ubuntu as the feature complete alternative that might
not be as s(ui)table.

> And yes.. I'd love to use gentoo or slackware as my server. It's 
> great when I can't upgrade things easily, or have to have a pile of 
> compilers and development libraries that are superfluous on it.
> 

Both these distros have package management systems. My experience with
Slackware's is that it's simple, elegant and easy to use as long as you
have a basic awareness of dependencies. There's a frontend included to
help you add and remove packages if you require such a thing. I can't
speak for gentoo - I don't have the sort of time needed to invest in it.

> *blink* So, you have a cd that installs a server, with all the 
> required settings, up front. So if I asked you to produce a server 
> with gstreamer, streaming media servers, and rsyncd, you could 
> produce that?
> 
> You start from a base point (minimal install of RHEL or ubuntu or 
> whatever) and add what you want.
> 

I couldn't right off, but a little time with The Fine Manual should
produce results. I've set up other servers from scratch (as in from
source). A minimal install of one distro is much the same as a minimal
install of another. Minimal is not default.

Which distro has all the settings you require on install? This is not a
troll - I'm genuinely interested in knowing what requires least effort.
Laziness is the virtue that gives us all these elegant solutions :)

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